Eye Witness

Not being satisfied with the range of images I managed to capture during my first visit to Waitrose Islington, the management team kindly allowed me to come along a second time – to once again capture the handing over of ‘surplus’ food from Waitrose to the FoodCycle LSE volunteers.

I wanted to be able to document the donation of food by Waitrose to the FoodCycle LSE Hub volunteers, and the management team at Waitrose Islington kindly gave me permission to photograph the Sunday collection.

On the same day as my visit to the Bloomsbury Hub I visited FoodCycle’s LSE Hub, which despite its name, is open to everyone and anyone. I met them at the Angel branch of Waitrose, where they collected ‘surplus’ food that would otherwise be thrown out.Read More

This was my first visit to a FoodCycle hub, and I didn’t really know what to expect. I had arranged to meet the Hub Leader at a Planet Organic in the Angel area of London, where they would be picking up ‘surplus’ food – how the industry likes to term food that is destined to be thrown away – so essentially food waste by another name. Read More